That tripping shouldn't be mortifying

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In shopping centre earlier when a young girl tripped over some bags/steps. I kinda helped her up and asked if she was ok. DH afterwards said that he was mortified for her. Got a big annoyed with him. Surely it's something that happens and not something that should be seen as mortifying.
Last year I was walking and it was a rainy day. I stepped on something which went from under my feet and I ended up on the ground. Nobody stopped to help me. When I told my friend about it she also said that she was scarlet for me.
Feels like there is a lack of compassion when someone has an accident in this way. AIBU? Is it something that we should be deeply embarassed about?

I used to be dreadfully embarrassed about tripping - once when I was a teenager I walked out of my house, slipped over on the snow, and went back inside again! But now I don't give a shit. It happens to everybody, so what?

I tripped while getting a £1 out my purse for a trolley - money went everywhere , people were bringing me coins and an elderly couple were helping me up asking if I was ok . I have never been so mortified

No cherry i was fine but I was absolutely terrified I had crushed a child! DS1 was more worried that santa was going to be pissed of at me for wrecking his grotto and punished the lot of us with eternity on the naughty list.

tywinlannister you honestly just made me cry laughing and having to explain myself to dh. I too make those stupid, loud, involuntary incoherent noises, it's funny afterwards.

I've no idea why we find it so embarrassing, I definitely think it's to do with the Fail Army type videos normalising what can often be really painful. We are encouraged to find humour in other people's distress, lessening the community and caring spirit that we ought to be fostering and dividing people instead.

Ooh oooh an excuse to post a pic of the amazing bruise I got falling over yesterday! I'm so proud of it

I was kind of embarrassed at the time because I felt a bit silly, but just look at what I got. Proper war wound, that

Rumtopf, I also once fell over at an Oasis gig in 1998. I grabbed the bare tattooed breast of a 6ft millwall fan so tight that my claw marks were on his nipple.

I'm just so unlucky. I wish I could fall over and effortlessly brush myself off but undoubtedly I am the poor bastard who falls in a bush, comes out with a birds nest in her hair (complete with nesting robins), her skirt on backwards and glasses around her chin.

No it is hardly mortifying. I find if I have to witness rudeness I find that far more mortifying and embarrassing for all involved, than if someone had an accident

I remember being at a festival and wanting to sit down. Plonked myself on top of a cardboard box which collapsed under my weight. Now, that was embarassing but I could laugh about it. Also, the time that there was a massive dog shit outside my flat and some guy slipped in it and ended up on his arse. Still laugh at the memory.
Maybe I'm as bad as DH

I did the full Superman, in the summer - hypermobility, lunchtime, hot day and just plain tired on uneven paving slapbs and one of my feet was trailing a little and I just went. A women and her (blind, it turned out, but I really went thud) son were just behind me and stopped to check I was OK and understood my embarrassment, so laughed with me a little.

It shouldn't be mortifying, but there is a bi element of why the hell did I go and do that again, particularly when it's a not infrequent occurrence that you should be mentally prepared for (it was the first in a whole year, oddly enough!)

I used to laugh loudly if someone fell, it was like an instinct, I couldnt help it. Now I am slightly older I realise just how much damage a fall can do and I dont laugh anymore

I once fell and got tangled on those plastic strips they sometimes use on very heavy boxes. Basically i was trapped inside a cats cradle type thing and was doing all sorts of shapes on the floor wearing my 2inch heels. So so mortifying. I can still remember all the faces of the people on the little hoppa bus as traffic was at a stand still (busy north London Road). It seemed like forever before traffic started moving and just after it did, I finally detangled and stood up. Writing it down, it still doesn't seem as bad as it actually was. I was at one point on all fours somehow but facing up.

My disability causes me to fall frequently (I should really use a wheelchair), and I get furious when people laugh - it's so ableist.

I had a fall walking out the school path at pick up time a few months ago. There were a few boys walking slowly in front of me and one was walking his "big" bike. I looked at my dd as she said something and boy with bike stopped dead in front of me and turned bike to side to cross the road...and I went straight over the saddle of the bike. Bike fell down with me over it and luckily my hands went out to stop my head being hit . I managed to get up straight away ignoring the pain and kept walking whilst people in cars stood still were staring and I could hear some sniggers! I was so embarrassed and held back the years till I got home. My jeans had a lovely big knee rip covered in blood and tyre dirt. The pain in my hips and shoulder for weeks was awful sore. I still feel so embarrassed because it was the worst time it could if happened being so busy and no one offered any help!

Bloody phone! Held back the "tears" not years!